Building interpersonal resilience has become a prevalent topic for school leaders in recent months, especially for those desperately trying to support a workforce that is suffering ‘burnout’ at a much higher rate than we have seen previously. Of even greater ...
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Concerns raised over Turnitin’s near monopoly of anti-plagiarism market
Experts have voiced concerns that Turnitin’s proposal to buy competitor Ouriginal would give the company a near monopoly of the anti-plagiarism market, reducing diversity and giving the company a “treasure trove of data”. Ouriginial is a Stockholm-based company that formed ...
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He’s the author of Testing 1, 2,3: What Australian education can learn from Finland, and this month teacher, writer and tragic Midnight Oil fan Michael Lawrence joined other educators in Orange, NSW, to take teachers through a one-day session of ...
More »The brain, multimovement therapy, neuroscience, pedagogy and education: part 6
During the entire four-year period, where John experienced what would have been hundreds of ‘event horizon’ episodes, he never asked to stop. Each time I asked John to stop, he would then inevitably present and say a variety of things, ...
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A popular ABC TV program that sparked conversations about loneliness and social isolation among older adults has returned to screens for a second season. In its debut season, Old People’s Home for 4 Year Olds documented a social experiment in ...
More »Are report cards assessing student achievement well enough?
As an indicator of progress, much time, discussion and energy is spent on how best to assess student learning and convey that information accurately to both students and parents. But as Professor Geoff Masters argues in his latest piece for ...
More »Eleven surprisingly mathematical careers to inspire students for World Mathematics Day – opinion
So your kids aren’t super excited by the prospect of becoming a statistician or a maths teacher. Perfectly understandable, but you don’t need to do away with maths just yet – it might still be the ticket to their dream ...
More »Childcare operator faces new charges over death of child left in bus
The childcare operator at the centre of the tragic death of a three-year-old boy who was left in a hot bus is facing thousands of dollars in fines after Education Queensland filed court action. Maliq Nicholas Floyd Namok-Malamoo was left ...
More »Minister orders review into Sydney school over Black Lives Matter posters
A Sydney school has been accused of brainwashing students after they created Black Lives Matter and police brutality posters as part of a pre-learning activity. The posters at Lindfield Learning Village, which included phrases like “stop killer cops” and “justice ...
More »The brain, multimovement therapy, neuroscience, pedagogy and education: part 5
In terms of all of the complex multimovement sequence actions that John engaged in, there was within this process the intentional self-directed activation of what D. Royce Sadler referred to as hard goals, and also that of stretch goals. Hard ...
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